The tradition
An aka-e (赤絵 "red picture") is a type of ukiyo-e that is printed entirely or predominantly in red. Aka-e were said to be talismans against smallpox, especially when they bore images of Shōki the demon queller. A woodblock print having a significant portion of the design entirely in red may also be considered to be an aka-e.¶
The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Aka-e”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence.¶
aka-e is Japanese woodblock prints, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition.1¶
The source record links this tradition to 2 external registers, which can be verified through the citation.1¶
What it mixes with
Artists and institutions
Sources
0 claims and 0 timeline entries on this page draw on 1 sources, deduplicated by publisher.
| Source | Type | Publisher |
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| Wikidata: aka-e (Q2828892) | database | Wikidata |
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